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A with breve (Ӑ ӑ; italics: Ӑ ӑ) is a letter of the Cyrillic script. It may be a homoglyph of the Latin letter A with breve (Ă ă Ă ă) unless the typeface distinguishes between the Latin and Cyrillic breve.

It is used in the Chuvash and Khanty alphabets. It appears in some Nenets dictionaries as well.[1]

In certain orthographical varieties of Bulgarian, such as in the Primer with Various Instructions, this letter was used for the sound /ɤ/. In modern Bulgarian, this sound is represented by the letter Ъ.

Usage

In Chuvash, ⟨ӑ⟩ represents the mid central vowel [ə], as ⟨a⟩ in word "era". It is always reduced and can occur stressed only in the first syllable of a polysyllabic word. The sound varies in its phonetic realization from a reduced /i/ or [ə] (like the pronunciation of ⟨a⟩ in English "sofa") to a labialized version of the ⟨a⟩ in English "all" (with rounded lips). It is sometimes so reduced as to sound coalesced with the following consonant as in сӑтел table, /stel/.

Computing codes

Character information
Preview Ӑ ӑ
Unicode name CYRILLIC CAPITAL LETTER
A WITH BREVE
CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER
A WITH BREVE
Encodings decimal hex dec hex
Unicode 1232 U+04D0 1233 U+04D1
UTF-8 211 144 D3 90 211 145 D3 91
Numeric character reference Ӑ Ӑ ӑ ӑ

See also

References

  1. ^ Tereščenko, Natalʹja Mitrofanovna (2005). Slovarʹ nenecko-russkij i russko-neneckij: okolo 6500 slov ; posobie dlja učaščichsja 1 - 4-ch klassov obščeobrazovatelʹnych učreždenij (3-e izd., ispr. i dop ed.). Sankt-Peterburg: Prosveščenie. ISBN 978-5-09-009175-6.

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